Spring 2018 gadget giveaway!

To celebrate spring (finally!), we are giving away seven awesome prizes. One winner takes it all! Entering is easy! Just answer three questions in a comment at the bottom of this post and if you’re willing to jump through a few extra hoops, you can earn up to three additional entries which will greatly increase your chances of winning. Please read the details on the prizes and the rules before you submit your entries for a chance to win our spring gadget giveaway prize pack!

Prizes:

One person will win a prize pack consisting of 1 of each of the 7 products shown below:

Make sure you come back to this page and leave a separate 2nd comment stating that you subscribed to the newsletter, a 3rd comment with a link to your tweet and a 4th comment with a link to your Facebook post. To get the links for Twitter and Facebook, just click the time stamp of your post and it will give you the page with that post so you can grab the link.

At some point on 04/29/2018, I’ll pick one random winner using random.org. The winner will be contacted by email and will have 48 hrs to claim their prizes. If I do not receive an answer to my email in that time period, I’ll do other random.org drawings till the prize pack is claimed.

Rules:

1. Only one entry per person (warning: I check IP addresses).

2. Gadgeteer writers and their immediate family members may not enter this contest.

3. the-gadgeteer.com is not responsible for any lost packages due to incorrect shipping addresses.

4. the-gadgeteer.com is not responsible for the winner not accepting their prize offer within 48hrs. The winner will be posted on this contest page, in the contest page comment section and will be emailed using the email provided in the comment section. Check your spam folder.

5. Winner must have a US shipping address.

Update

The winner of this contest is comment #20 from Lisa L. Congrats to Lisa and special thanks to everyone who entered and to the sponsors you are supplying the prizes.

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I created The Gadgeteer in 1997 as a fun way to share my passion for gadgets which began when I was a little kid. Some of my other interests include ukulele, photography, productivity hacks, and minimalism. Learn more about me and my favorite gear.

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Do you come here for news, reviews, or both? Mostly reviews.
What is your favorite thing about The Gadgeteer? Very good reviews, honest and thorough.
How would you make The Gadgeteer better? More contests. 😉

1. Do you come here for news, reviews, or both? BOTH
2. What is your favorite thing about The Gadgeteer? New tech that I’ve never seen/heard of.
3. How would you make The Gadgeteer better? Clearly communicate whether or not a piece of news or a review is sponsored by the subject of the article.

Do you come here for news, reviews, or both? Gear Reviews
What is your favorite thing about The Gadgeteer? Love reading about odd items I never would have found nor heard of otherwise.
How would you make The Gadgeteer better? Maybe more pictures of items in actual use… ACTION PHOTOS!

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2. I like the CF reviews as well as the hands-on reviews (not press releases, like some sites).
3. Maybe some “my favorite things” posts where your staff share some of their tried-and-true gadgets they use, even if they’re not new products?

1. Both: The reviews primarily, the news second.
2. The wide variety of gadgets & tech covered.
3. Better organization or categorization of the type of gadgets. If you have to wade through stuff you aren’t interested in like backpacks, briefcases, etc. to get to electronics, it would make for a better experience. It’s too helter-skelter.

Also, maybe you should separate between news & future or kickstarter/possible product from stuff that’s available for sale now.

ps. apologies for the name of my humble (and neglected/obscure) blog. I had no idea of the existence of your excellent website. If I ever get it off the ground as something more ambitious, it’ll really give me some agita to come up with a wowza domain that hasn’t already been snapped up.

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2) The reviews are so helpful; especially for the items I’m looking at purchasing giving both pros and cons as well as photos and pricing.
3) Would like to see a future follow up of the most popular reviews- how did the items do say after using for a year or more….
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1. I come here for reviews more than news, but the read the news too .
2. The reviews are from actual use, not just looking at stats and estimating how products will perform.
3. Tiny picture/headshot of reviewer by their name in each review 😉

1. Do you come here for news, reviews, or both? I come here for both. Julie and the gang are helpful and what they share is often noteworthy.

2. What is your favorite thing about The Gadgeteer? Sorta experiencing things vicariously, I appreciate the reviews of products that interest me yet that I don’t have the funds to purchase and test out.

3. How would you make The Gadgeteer better? Not sure if it would be better, per se, yet I think it might be neat/interesting to give “armchair” gadget users/reviewers (or, those who don’t have the ability to commit to being reviewers with The-Gadgeteer) the opportunity to receive samples to provide their own reviews.

I come to the site for the reviews, but do end up reading some of the news.
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Why I’m here: I check Gadgeteer 2-3 x / day for news and reviews
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Improvement: Nothing comes to mind. Keep on keepin’ on !

1. I come here for reviews. We have a tech inspired blended family and I love being able to find reviews on items I might purchase for them.
2. I like that the site is easy to navigate the website and there is always something new for me to learn and new products.
3. It’s a great site. I wouldn’t change anything but maybe add more smart home items? We just purchased a radon detector / tracker for our home and it was hard to find reviews on this item. We love adding smart home items to family gift baskets at teh holidays.

1. I come here entirely for the reviews.
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3. At times I get a bit frustrated at the level of proofreading – spelling and word choices really affect the readability of some reviews.

I like to see the reviews, there are actually so many gadgets that I have started a wish list for them!
I think the content is easy to read, understand, you don’t have to be a techie to read and understand the reviews and I appreciate that. Plus the fact that you are impartial and list the positives and negatives is very helpful!
My 16 yr old daughter likes to read the reviews and check out the stuff she likes, she has mentioned that it would be cool to see a section for teens, maybe reviewed by teens, or for the 13-19 age frame.

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2. The reviews have become my “go to” before I make a new purchase, or before I get tempted to impulse-buy something that looks “cool”.
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3. not sure how you could make it better that is always a tough question to answer especially when i think it fine the way it is.
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